The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-03-17
MARVELLOUS PROGRESS.
A SUMMARY OF ENTERPRISES
FOR ONE WEEK.
Wide Diversity of New Industries in
the South--The Rig Oil Mill Com
pany Buying Machinery.

The tremendous industrial progress
that the South is making and the wide
diversity of new enterprises that are
being started IN this section, have
probably never been more convincing
" shown than in the report OF new
enterprises for the last seven days as
given in the Manufacturers Record, of
Baltimore, of March II, in its regular
weekly list of new industries started
in the South. Some idea of the num-
Der OF new enterprises reported during
the week may be obtained from the
mere statement that six pages of the
Manufacturers Record are this week
devoted to the particulars Of new in
dustries. Among the most important
enterprises reported were
IN ALABAMA,
A 100000 horse shoe factory at
Montgomery a &25, 900 iron roofing
and corrugating company at Birming
ham; 100000 iron bridge works and
100000 oil and gas company at De
catur; a 100-ton furnace company at
Tuscaloosa; !; S300,000 hotel company
at Blount Springs; 100000 iron front
building at Montgomery; three brick
yards at Admission, one having been
removed from Cincinnati and requir
ing seven car loads for the machinery;
carriage and wagon factory at Hart
selle; saw mill at Middletown cleo
tric light works at Gadsden broom,
bucket and wheel factory at Midway !;
$31, 900 hotel company at Gadsden !;
$4,000 saw mill at Hull; electric
light works at Huntsville 100000
Montgomery company to develop
1000 acres of coal land; saw and
grist mill at Hartselle; saw mill at
Brierfeld brick yard at Decatur
rolling mill at Birmingham; ice fac
tory at Opolika, and an ice factory at
Tuscaloosa saw mill at Middleton ;
electric light works at Sheffield ;
$4,000 ice factory at Decatur.
IN ARKANSAS,
$4,000 ice factory at Fort Smith
$4,000 canning factory company,
100000 land company, and $4,000
towards a cotton mill, at the same
place; a smelter at Bear $4,000
water company at Little Rock shingle
mill at Tillar; saw and grist mill at
Mulberry, and several mining enter
prises.
IN FLORIDA,
Ice machine factory at jacksonville
$4,000 hotel at Naples; saw mill at
Oak Hill, and 1900 acres of phos-
phate rock land leased tor develop
ment; creosoting works at Fernandina;
water works at Key West.
IN GEORGIA,
4 planning mill at Rockmart bucket
factory at Decatur saw mill at Amer
icus; canning factory at Marshallville
slate quarry at Plainville; fertilizer
factory at jackson saw and grist mill
at Perry; 100000 construction com
pany at Augusta $4,000 land and
improvement company at Rome; SOAP
factory at Macon soap factory al
Atlanta cotton mill at Flat Shoals
soap factory at Rome; brick yard al
Rome; $4,000 stone and coal com
pany at Atlanta; while negotiations
are pending for s25O,OO0 hotel Al
Augusta; a Michigan syndicate repre-
senting several million dollars hav'
purchased large body of timbel
land, and will build saw mills, &c.
an immense rolling mill at Rome golt
mine at Canton, &c.
IN KENTUCKY,
A 100000 ice company, $4,000 dis
tillery and a $50, 600 turnpike com
pany, $5OO,OOO coal and iron com
pany at Hopkinsville T.; 100000 natu
raj gas company at La Grange.
IN LOUISIANA,
A $1,000,000 decorticating machiner
company at New Orleans 81, ,500,0 ,00
company at same place to develo
mineral and agricultural lands
$4,000 shingle mill company at Pla
quemine broom factory at Cheney
vile, and ginnery at same place.
IN MARYLAND,
$150,000 brick and tile works; 81 90
to 100000 ck-yards, slaughte
house and fertilizer factory, and $5, 90
shirt factory at Baltimore -four mi
at Rockville creamery at Colora
grist mill and chair factory at Yello
Springs, and saw mill and box factor
at Brooklyn.
IN MISSISSIPPI,
A cotton mill at Columbus $500, ,0C
land and improvement company
West Point /; creamery at Edward:
brickyard at Yazoo; new ice facto,
at tGreenville, and corn mill at Winon
IN NORTH CAROLINA,
$500, 900 have been invested by En-,
Ish capitalists in mineral and timb